Through the backwaters of the wired world Mark Amerika
stalks the lonely net artist. These are his
"net.dialogues," a special Rhizome web diary featuring
one-on-one conversations with the Net's creative fringe.

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"Very early on I realised that the net has an energy system of its own...it is a living entity and I think it feeds off us as we sit in front of the screen. We become the animating fluid of cyberspace..."
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"A good example of what has influenced me lately would be
the generative (and multi-user) work of Mark Napier as well
as the ambient-generative work of Joshua Davis. With Davis's
Praystation, we see the 'player' and 'movie' dissolve as the
art is recursively grown, three dimensionally displayed, and
distributed to the user's mind via the phosphor screen..."
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<excerpt>
"Should I sell Alt-X for a measly quarter of a million bucks
because that's what someone can afford? Too many artists do
that nowadays. Especially net artists. But that's my soapbox
this monthso don't get me started!"
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"There's quite a bit happening at Alt-X in the near future,
all of it pinned to our mission, to our net art meets
literary art meets conceptual art curatorial vision. We are
just now releasing a variety of free 'conceptual net art'
and net.fiction ebooks. It's part of our strategy to help
clean up the air a little bit."
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<excerpt>
"I just came back from a gig in Lucerne, Switzerland, a
beautiful town surrounded by the Alps. The festival was
called Surf-Sample-Manipulate, after a theory I've been
developing over the last few years wherein the writer-cum-netartist
uses all the available data on the web as source
material to further inflect a narrative environment."
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